Dangerous Agricultural / Forestry Vehicles

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A local man died last night when his tractor overturned on a public road and crashed. There too many people in rural work driving dangerous bad condition vehicles even off road. Not worth the risk! Make sure lights, brakes, seatbelts, wipers, steering, rollframe all in good condition. I know the vehicle involved :001_rolleyes:

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Absolutely!

 

Here's a photo snatch from dash cam from this afternoon.....

 

Very lucky someone wasn't killed.

 

There are surely enough concessions for ag vehicles already, continued carelessness or ignorance will eventually put paid to the concessions.

[Tommywommy]

That's a trailer mounted stock box, hope there was no livestock being carted on that trip !

In farming we are so bad at keeping things roadworthy. Don't think much will change whilst 90% of the time we get away with it.

[Shane]

Don't they get subsidies for NOT maintaining their vehicles?

[Ian C]

The way a lot of farmers drive modern tractors I'm amazed there aren't more fatalities, why does a 10t trailer and a big tractor have to be driven flat out as soon as it sees tarmac is behond me.

[Treewolf]

A tractor flipped its trailer on a roundabout in Poole yesterday, which caused traffic chaos.

[Stubby]

"2 summers ago a polish farm worker was coming through the village with a big 4x4 tractor and a bowser full of diesel . He went round the bend by the church and tipped the lot over . Bowser was illegal single skin and split depositing all the fuel down the road . The road had to be resurfaced for about 250 yds .

[s.varty]

Nothing will change simply because agriculture as an industry produces food, what other industry can run its hgv type vehicles on red and driven by a seventeen year old lad on minimum wage and pay no road tax, and Get paid for not producing their goods?

[Stubby]

Nothing will change simply because agriculture as an industry produces food, what other industry can run its hgv type vehicles on red and driven by a seventeen year old lad on minimum wage and pay no road tax, and Get paid for not producing their goods?

 

Thats about the top and bottom of it Steve .

[Ian C]

Farmer's are a law too themselves so it seems.